Creates the Child Bereavement Leave Act and amends the State Finance Act. Provides that an employee may use specified amounts of bereavement leave to grieve the death of the employee's child, attend services in relation to the death of the employee's child, or make arrangements necessitated by the death of the employee's child. Provides for enforcement by the Department of Labor. Provides for civil penalties. Authorizes the Attorney General to collect penalties. Creates the Child Bereavement Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
Rep. Marcus Evans
Sponsored bills
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the organization of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Deletes provision that 2 sitting judges shall serve on the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council. Provides that the retired judges on the Council shall be selected by certain other members of the Council (rather than by the Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. Provides that businesses located in an enterprise zone shall be granted access to build facilities to cross a railroad right-of-way owned by a land management company for the purpose of conveyance of grain, aggregate, construction materials, and other commodities over, under, or across that right-of-way, subject to payment of certain fees and costs. Provides that the crossing fee shall be in lieu of any license, permit, application, or any other fee or charges to reimburse the land management company for the direct expense incurred by the land management company as a result of the crossing. Effective immediately.
Congratulates John Wilson on the occasion of his retirement as Director of the Lan-Oak Park District.
Congratulates the Technology and Manufacturing Association on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.
Mourns the death of Henry English.
Mourns the death of Louis Stevenson.
Congratulates Robert A. Saddler, M.Ed., Ed.D., of Chicago on being inducted into the Senior Illinois Hall of Fame.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago Park District.